Railway-car end construction.



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RAILWAY cAn END eonsnuclon. APPLICATION FILED )UNE l. 19.14.

' Patented D0@.19,1916.

2 SHEETS-SHEET lman sraras ramena orrrea JACOB H. WEISBBOD, OF ST.LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN CAR AND FOUNDBY COMPANY, 0F ST.LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION 0F NEW JERSEY. I

` RAILWAY-CAB END CONSTRUCTION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. t9, 11.916.

- Application led June 1, 1914. Serial No. 842,050.

a citizen of the United States, residing at. St. Louis, Missouri, haveinvented al certain new and useful Improvement in Railway- Car EndConstruction, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exactdescription, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use' the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this spiication, in whichd Figurel is an elevational view of a car end of my improved construction. Fig.2 is a vertical section taken approximately on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken on the line 3--3 of Fig. l. Fig. 4is an elevational view of a portion of a modified form of my improvedcar end. Fig. 5 is an elevational view of a portion of a. furthermodified form of the car end. Fig. 6 is a horizontal section taken onthe line 6--6 of Fig. 4. Fig. 7 is a horizontal section taken on theline 7 7 of Fig. 5.

My invention relates generally to railway cars and more particularly toa pressedmetal structure which forms of a car.

In railway cars, and particularly those designed for and used in thetransportation of freight, the end portions of the car body and the endwalls are subjected to strains and stresses resulting from serviceshocks and vibrations and also by reason of the sudden starting andstopping of the cars and the shifting of the load and contents of thecars while the latter are in transit.

One of the principal objects of my invention is to construct a car endfrom a plurality of sections of material, preferably sheet metal, eachsection being reinforced and stiifened by one or more pressed ribs orcorrugations, said sections having their meeting edges bent to forminterlocking reinforcing ribs or corrugations,` thus providing acomparatively simple, inexpensive car end which can be readily combinedwith an ordinary car underframe and superstructure, and which end, byreason of its being stifened and reinforced, will be very effective inresisting such strains and stresses as may result from shifting loads,ordinary service shocks and vibrations, or collisions. In order tocomply with the Government regulations relating to cars utilized for theend wall transportation of explosives, it is necessary to provide carends which are entirely devoid of projections, such as rivet or boltheads, o n their interior faces, for, if such construct1on wereemployed, it wouldv be possible for a box or package of explosives whenshifted suddenly within the car to strike against the projecting head ofa bolt or rivet, and thus develop sulicient impact to set off or efectadischarge of the explosives. Likewise it would be possible for a bolt orrivet when subjected to a blowfrom the ex-k terior of the carto performthe functions of a hammer' and transmit to a box or package ofexploslves positioned against the inner face of the car end, suilicientimpact to effect a discharge of said explosives.

Wlth thls consideration in view, it is one lof the objects of myinvention to construct a car end having a substantially smooth Hat innerface, which car end is made up of a. number of panels, portions of whichlatter are bent and shaped so that the heads on the inner ends of therivets or fastening deviceswhich' unite said sections or panels areinset a substantial distancewith respect to the inner face ofthecompleted endl With the foregoing and other objects in view, myinvention consists in certain novel features of construction andarrangement of parts, hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

The car end illustrated inthe accompanying drawings, and particularlyFigs. 1 and 3 comprises three vertically disposed sections or panelswhich are approximately equal in width, but it will be understood thatthe number of panels maybe increased if desired and likewise that saidpanels can be of different widths, as for instance, a comparativelywidel intermediate panel and comparatively narrow side panels, orcomparatively wide side panels and one or more comparatively narrowintermediate panels.

The side panels 10, which are preferably formed of sheet metal andofsufficient length to extend from the underframe to the roofstructureareA duplicates, which provision is desirable from amanufacturing standpoint for the reason that they can be readily formedwith a single die and may rib or corrugation 11, the same being sub--stantially U-shape in horizontal section. The ends 11a of these ribs orcorrugations gradually decrease in depth until they merge into the mainbody of the sheet.

The outer edge 12 of each side section or panel is preferably bentrearwardly in order to be readily combined with the corner post of thecar body. rlhe inner edges of each panel or section l0 is bentoutwardlyA to 'form a reinforcing rib 13 which is substantially l..shapein horizontal section andthe edge of the outer leg of this rib orcorrugation is bent inwardly as designated by 14C to form a retaininglip or dange which is adapted to engage behind a corresponding rib orcorrugation which. is formed on the side of the intermediate section orpanel. 'lhe intermediate panel or section 15 is formed from a singlepiece of sheet metaland provided at .its center with an outwardlyprojecting vertically disposed rib or corrugation 16 which issubstantially a counterpart of the rib or corrugation 11 of the sidepanel.

'lhe side edges of the intermediate panel are bent outward to formreinforcing ribs 17 which are substantially ill-shape in horizontalsection. `When all of the panels forming the end are properly assembledthese ribs 17 occupy positions within the ribs 13 of the side panels andthe retaining lips la engage behind the outwardly projecting portions ofthe ribs on the center panel, thereby lpractically interlocking theoverlapping ribs..

` received by the heads on the outer ends of said rivets, to freight,such as boxes or packages of explosives which may be' positionedimmediately against the inner face of the car end.

'lhe car end is materially reinforced and strengthened by theinterlocked ribs 13 and 17, and such reinforcement is augmented by theprovision of ribs or corrugations 11 and 15 inthe centers of theindividual panels.

ln order' to further reinforce and stiffen the end, the sheets formingthe panels or sections may be provided with vertical rows of shorthorizontally disposed ribs or corrugations 19 as illustrated in Fig. 4,said short ribs or corrugations being pressed outward from the panelsbetween the vertically disposed ribs or corrugations.

A further means of reinforcing and stidrecaps? ening the car end isthrough the use of buckle plates, one of which is illustrated in Figs. 5and 7. These plates are buckled or provided with one or morecomparatively wide ribs or corrugations which are pressed outwardly, andwhich extend vertically of the, lplates and approximately equal thelength of the ribs or corrugations formed on the edges of said plates.

A car end of my improved construction iscomparatively simple, can beeasily and cheaply manufactured and by providing the individual sectionswith ribs or corrugations, certain of which overlap and interlock at theedges of said sections, the end is rei inforced and stidened to amaximum degree, and it will be edective in resisting all internally orexternally applied shocks or blows and all service strains andvibrations.

As hereinbefore described, the heads on the inner ends of the rivets orbolts utilized in connecting the overlapping edges of the sections orsheets forming the car end, are inset with respect to the inner face ofsaid end, and thus cars equipped with my improved end are 'applicablefor use in the transportation of explosives, inasmuch as the ends inconstruction, comply with the regulations and requirements of theGovernment relating to transportation of explosives.

llt will be readily understood that minor changes in the size, form andconstruction of the various Iparts of my improved car end can be madeand substituted for those herein shown and described, without departingfrom the spirit of my invention, the scope of which is set forth in theappended claims.

l claim:

1. A. .car end comprising a plurality of i.

vertically disposed sheet metal sections or panels, the meeting edges ofwhich are bent outwardly to form overlapping ribs or corrugations,attaching means seated in the overlapping ribs or corrugations toconnect them to form post like reinforcements and with the inner ends ofsaid attaching means outside the lplane of the inner face of 'the end,and outwardly pressed corrugations forming transverse reinforcementsbetween the post like reinforcements so formed.

2. A car end comprising a series of pla tes, each provided with anoutwardly pressed vertically disposed reinforcing rib or corrugation andthe meeting edges of which plates are provided with outwardly pressedreinforcing ribs or corrugations which are adapted to overlap andinterlock, said plates being provided with stid'ening corrugationsextending intermediate said reinforcing ribs.

3. A car end comprising a series of plates, each provided with anoutwardly pressed strengthening rib or corrugation terminating short ofthe edges of the plates, the meeting edges Vof which plates are providedwith outwardly pressed reinforcing ribs or corrugations terminatingshort of the edges of the plates which are adapted to overlap andinterlock, and attaching means seated in the overlapping portions ofsaid last mentioned ribs or corrugations.

4. A car end comprising a series of plates conjoined on vertical edges,the central portionsof which plates are corrugated, and the meetingedges of which plates are provided with conjolned outwardly pressed ribsor corrugations which terminate short of the edges of the plates.

5. A car end comprising a series of plates,

the central portions of which are deformed, the meeting edges'A of whichplates extend vertically and are provided with outwardly pressedL-shaped ribs or corrugations which are-adapted to overlap andinterlock, and fastening means seated in the overlapping portions ofsaid ribs or corrugations.

In testimony whereof I hereunto alix my .signature in the presence oftwo witnesses,

this 22nd day of May, 1914.

JACOB H. WEIVSBROD. Witnesses: OSCAR Hocmmno,

WILLIAM V. MORRISON.

